It’s a perfectly biblical (hell, even a koranic) viewpoint.
“If your eye causes you to sin it is better to cut it out and go to heaven blind than to burn in hell” Also, those nasty crotch bleeders are making you sin with your eyes, so they should all be wrapped up tight in a hijab or something.

Well… Duh? He’s a dominionist. There’s a lot of them in state legislatures. The kind of people who unironically believe that the constitution and the founding fathers were inspired by moses. Because… He was a guy who led some people, right? Never mind that democracy is basically the opposite of a biblical theocracy.

"Live Free or Die" is the official motto of the U.S. state of New Hampshire, adopted by the state in 1945. It is possibly the best-known of all state mottos, partly because it conveys an assertive independence historically found in American political philosophy and partly because of its contrast to the milder sentiments found in other state mottos. The phrase was adopted from a toast written by General John Stark, New Hampshire's most famous soldier of the American Revolutionary War, on July 31, ...